Practice Activities

Practice Activity 1: Creating Effective Surveys (Part 1)

Article Review

• Select 2 of the articles from the section “Collecting Data from Students.”

• Make a list of 3-5 topics that you might want to get feedback or input on from your students.

  • Create a 5-10 question survey for your students on one of this topics.

  • Why is student voice so important in their education?

Identifying Good and Bad Questions:

• Click on this link. You will be forced to make a copy of the slide deck.

• Open the slide deck. Drag the textboxes with "bad questions" to the right-hand side of the table (green.)

• Drag the textboxes with "good questions" to the left-hand side of the screen (yellow)

• Can you identify the techniques used in the "bad questions?

Tricider/Formative

• Select either Tricider or Socrative.

• Use it in an online discussion with a group of students.

• The last question before dismissing the group should be a question to help you determine if this tool was effective.

Practice Activity 2: Creating Effective Surveys (Part 2)

• Create a 3-2-1 Survey in Google Forms that you can use during a student activity.

  • When the activity is complete, give the students the survey.

  • What did you discover from your data?

• Create a Google form survey for students or parents about an aspect of online learning. Distribute the survey. Are the results what you expected? What did you learn that you did not know before?

Practice Activity 3: Data Privacy

• Lesson Check: Data Privacy